Safety Orientation Quiz
Circle the correct letter response to the following questions:
- HIPAA limits how we use and share patient information.
 - True
 - False
 
- Suspected violations to patient privacy or security should be reported.
 - True
 - False
 
- Which of the following are considered Protected Patient Information?
 - A clinic schedule
 - A patient’s lab result
 - Meal delivery report
 - A patient’s bill
 - All of the above
 
- Primary causes of fires in healthcare settings are related to smoking and electrical problems.
 - True
 - False
 
- Red alert is not the announcement for a fire.
 - True
 - False
 
- If you have to respond to a fire you should remember the word
 - CRASH
 - SPACE
 - DASH
 - RACE
 
- In case of fire, you should activate the pull station to get assistance.
 - True
 - False
 
- Which of these activities or items are allowed in the medical center
 - Smoking inside the building
 - Electrical equipment with two-pronged plugs
 - Frayed electrical cords with bare wire exposed
 - Electrical equipment with three-pronged plugs and Heavy Duty power strips
 
- The meaning of standard precautions is “treat all human blood and other potentially hazardous material as if they were infected with bloodborne pathogens.
 - True
 - False
 
- How often should you clean your hands after touching a Patient’s skin (to take a B/P or other procedure)?
 - After each patient
 - At the end of each shift
 - Before your meal break
 
- Which method should you use to clean your hands at work?
 - Soap and water
 - Antibacterial soap and water
 - Alcohol based hand gel
 - All of the above
 
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has an adult and a pediatric CPR Team?
 - True
 - False
 
- Students must identify the correct emergency response plan for their area.
 - True
 - False
 
- Each of the following incidents/accidents must be reported to the Risk Management or Privacy office except:
 - Patient or Visitor slips and falls
 - Patient complains about a violation of privacy
 - Spill on floor in a public bathroom
 - Medication Error
 
- If you see a patient or visitor slip and fall, what are the two actions you must take?
 - Discuss it with your student group
 - Help the person
 - Report it to your instructor
 - Provide information for the VUMC employee to prepare the appropriate report
 
- Veritas On line reports are completed for incidents/accidents that occur in a non patient
 
care area.
- True
 - False
 
- The overhead message for a missing child (age 1- 12) is
 - Code Walker child
 - Code Young Person
 - Code Green
 - Code Purple
 
- What is the overhead message for a missing adult?
 - Code Missing Adult
 - Code Walker Adult
 - Code Pink
 - Code Adam Adult
 
- The overhead message Code Yellow is used to activate the Code Team.
 - True
 - False
 
- The overhead message Code Orange is used to alert hospital personnel
 - About a possible fire situation
 - To activate the emergency preparedness plan
 - To prepare to activate the emergency preparedness plan
 - About a missing patient
 
- Verbal or physical abuse of staff is acceptable behavior.
 - True
 - False
 
- What are ways to show care and concern to all patients?
 - A kind voice
 - Body language
 - Facial expression
 - All of the above
 
